The most wide-reaching effect of non-biodegradable trash is the Pacific Garbage Patch--an area of the Pacific ocean which is heavily polluted with plastics and other waste. The Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of the continental United States‚ stretching almost from California to Japan. Warning 4. Plastic debris in the ocean is responsible for the deaths of over 100‚000 marine animals each year. It is estimated that the Pacific Garbage Patch will double in size over the next 10 years if consumers
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"Adornments." The art of Tonga = Ko e ngaahi ’aati ’o Tonga. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press‚ 1997. 94-99. Print. 3. Hooper‚ Steven. "Pacific Arts Association." Pacific Arts Association. http://www.pacificarts.org/node/430 (accessed October 1‚ 2012). This website article contains an article that Steven Hooper wrote on the importance of tabua 4. Hooper‚ Steven. Pacific Encounters: art & divinity in Polynesia 1760 - 1860; London: British Museum Press‚ 2006.
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tourists‚ which in return has made our real estate market a very lucrative one. For these and many more reasons‚ Panama should be your kind of place to develop a business. Since the discovery of the Pacific coast of Panama‚ visionaries dreamed of one day creating a great passageway from the Atlantic to the Pacific‚ thus avoiding the 12‚000-mile journey around the tip of South America. The United States is the largest user of the Canal in terms of cargo tonnage‚ as either port of origin or destination‚
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Sir Francis Drake By Mussie Sahle Late in 1577‚ Francis Drake left England with five ships‚ ostensibly on a trading expedition to the Nile. On reaching Africa‚ the true destination was revealed to be the Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Magellan‚ to the dismay of some of the accompanying gentlemen and sailors. Still in the eastern Atlantic‚ a Portuguese merchant ship and its pilot - who was to stay with Drake for 15 months - was captured‚ and the fleet crossed the Atlantic‚ via the Cape Verde
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eastern markets with towns and cities on the western slope of the Appalachians. In 1844‚ the telegraph became a more modern tool for long distance communication. The American dream of Manifest Destiny‚ extending the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific‚ now seemed more like a reality. The US had a large amount of unoccupied land‚ but expansionists argued that
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Spruance‚ among others in the naval elite‚ was said to hold Admiral Nagumo‚ Commander of the Japanese Central Pacific Fleet personally responsible for directing the air raids on US Naval ships at Pearl Harbor and Midway. During the attack on Pearl Harbor Admiral Spruance had been at sea. The very next day‚ Admiral Spruance steamed into the harbor where he witnessed the destruction of the entire Pacific fleet. Friends‚ colleagues and countless brothers in arms died during what must have seemed at the time
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and Pacific Oysters deliver just that. Major Aquaculture Areas in New Zealand Northland Pacific Oyster: 51% of total production Auckland Greenshell™ Mussel: 4% of total production Pacific Oyster: 25% of total production Coromandel Greenshell™ Mussel: 19% of total production Pacific Oyster: 21% of total production Tasman & Golden Bays Greenshell™ Mussel: 3% of total production Marlborough Greenshell™ Mussel: 69% of total production King Salmon: 64% of total production Pacific Oyster:
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aircraft as it awaits approval"‚ 22 August 2014. 5. Dragonair (2013)‚ “Dragon News”‚ Issue 151‚ Feb 2013. 6. Dragonair (2014)‚ “Dragonair’s Economy Class voted the best at 2014 Business Traveller China Awards”‚ Press Release‚ 13 November 2014. 7. Cathay Pacific (2014)‚ “Interim Annual Reports 2014”‚ June 2014. 8. CAPA (2012)‚ “Hong Kong Airlines‚ Asia ’s fastest growing carrier‚ looks to become reckoning force in the region”‚ 15 November 2012.
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First settled by Polynesians sailing from other Pacific islands between A.D. 300 and 600‚ Hawaii was visited in 1778 by British captain James Cook‚ who called the group the Sandwich Islands. Hawaii was a native kingdom throughout most of the 19th century‚ when the expansion of the sugar industry (pineapple came after 1898) meant increasing U.S. business and political involvement. In 1893‚ Queen Liliuokalani was deposed‚ and a year later the Republic of Hawaii was established with Sanford B. Dole
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independent accountants‚ PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide an assurance report on selected data in this Report. Report Scope We report annually to our stakeholders on the key sustainability issues of the Cathay Pacific Group. This Report covers the 2010 calendar year. In addition to Cathay Pacific Airways and our five 100% owned subsidiaries‚ this year we have started reporting on one of our associate companies‚ Air Hong Kong‚ with a view to increasing disclosure in future reports. New data covered in
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